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The Two Mrs. Grenvilles (1987)
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 178 min.
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Story:
Family image matters more than anything to the Grenvilles, even when the son is shot dead by his former chorus girl wife, whom his mother despises.
Style:
crying, weeping
Plot:
rich, family secret, dancing, world war two, lawyer, party, murder, alcoholic, restaurant, male nudity, wealth, farm, midlife crisis, dancer, passionate kiss, blood, mother in law daughter in law relationship, widow, accidental death, husband wife relationship, scandal, rich man poor woman, death of friend, courtroom, cruise ship ...
Time:
1950s, 50s
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and captivating films and TV series with plots about lawyer, murder, investigation, legal, courtroom, male nudity and criminal mostly in Drama, Crime and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Two Mrs. Grenvilles: Lady's Farm (2009), In Justice (2006), The Waterfront (2025), The Jury (2004), American Crime (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min.
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Hanımın Çiftliği is a Turkish drama series. It has been adapted from Orhan Kemal's novel Hanımın Çiftliği. It has been very praised and won numerous awards.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, psychological, soap opera
Plot:
forced marriage, marriage of convenience, unrequited love, tragic love, male female relationship, marital problem, romantic triangle, loveless marriage, marriage, relationship problems, troubled marriage, rich and poor ...
Time:
1950s, 50s
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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In Justice is an American television police procedural created by Michelle King and Robert King. The series began airing on Sunday, January 1, 2006 on ABC as a midseason replacement and assumed its regular night and time on Friday, January 6, 2006 ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, san francisco, oakland california
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81%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
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A prominent North Carolina fishing family wades into treacherous waters to keep their crumbling business empire afloat.
Style:
tense, intense, moody
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
north carolina
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160
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Set in New York City, the series brings the viewer into the jury room to watch the deliberators try to answer the many questions posed during a trial. As facts are exposed through flashbacks of testimony and crime footage, viewers will form their ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, disturbing, tense ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
new york
Similarity:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
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An anthology drama focusing on all aspects of the U.S. criminal justice system dealing with crimes committed in America.
Style:
anthology, tense, realistic, serious, suspense ...
Plot:
murder, family relations, courtroom, racism, parents and children, interracial relations, society, tragedy, investigation, lawyer, friendship, criminal ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
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63%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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A gorgeous Yankee litigator and a charming southern attorney must hide their intense mutual attraction as a police sex scandal threatens to tear the city of Charleston, S.C. apart.
Style:
sexy, realistic, tense, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
hotshot lawyer, courtroom, opposites attract, lawyer, legal, courtroom drama, lawyers and clients, love and romance, friends, dishonesty, friendship, sex scandal ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, south carolina, charleston south carolina
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 48 min.
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Story:
Having left the hollers of Kentucky 15 years ago, Raylan Givens is now based in Miami, balancing life as a marshal and part-time father of a 15-year-old girl. A chance encounter on a Florida highway sends him to Detroit and he crosses paths with ...
Style:
psychological thriller, suspenseful, captivating, bleak, serious ...
Plot:
nypd, law enforcement, father daughter relationship, police, car, handgun, automobile, shooting, scuffle, shooter, handheld weapon, con man ...
Place:
miami, florida, detroit, michigan
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series that ran on CBS from 1961–1965. It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized in legally complex cases, with defendants such as neo-Nazis, ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, talky, contemplative ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 50 min.
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Follow Maya Stern who is trying to come to terms with the brutal murder of her husband, Joe. When Maya installs a nanny-cam to keep an eye on her young daughter, she is shocked to see a man she recognizes in her house. Her husband, who she thought ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, detective
Plot:
male nudity, affair, widow, secret, investigation, relationship problems, family relations, family problems, relationships, loss of husband, plot twist, female protagonist ...
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59%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 192 min.
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Story:
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Style:
homoerotic, thought provoking, captivating, mind bending, tense ...
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Time:
80s
Place:
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56%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
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Style:
saga, light, captivating, entertaining, exciting ...
Plot:
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Time:
2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
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Similarity:
56%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 454 min.
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Style:
psychological thriller, dark, crime drama, disturbing, creepy ...
Plot:
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Time:
70s, year 1978
Place:
chicago, illinois
Similarity:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A rising designer leaves a top fashion house to rescue her retired father's New York apparel business.
Plot:
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Place:
new york, puerto rico
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54%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
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An up-to-every-trick media lawyer handles her clients' affairs while discovering a mysterious connection between old family baggage and current political controversy in modern Berlin.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, thrilling, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
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Place:
berlin germany
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
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Style:
dark, intense, tense, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
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Style:
detective, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
hawaii, usa, california
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48%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
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Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
organized crime, mafia, gangster, dark humor, family life, criminal heroes, mob boss, parents and children, criminal, dysfunctional family, family relations, introspection ...
Time:
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Place:
new jersey, new york, usa, north america
Similarity:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
neo noir, detective, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot:
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Time:
year 1963, 20th century, 60s
Place:
california, nevada, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
46%
96K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
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Based on Michael Connelly's best-selling novels, these are the stories of relentless LAPD homicide Detective Harry Bosch who pursues justice at all costs. But behind his tireless momentum is a man who is haunted by his past and struggles to ...
Style:
realistic, tense, detective, exciting, serious ...
Plot:
police, law enforcement, coworker, determination, police detective, homicide detective, murder, murder investigation, suspicion, police investigation, father daughter relationship, danger ...
Time:
2020s, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, south america
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44%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
2020s
Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 273 min.
TV show
Story:
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Style:
suspenseful, exciting, serious, rough, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
boston
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
America's DJ Dick Clark and Robert Walker Jr. star as two country boys who decide to rob a pile of cash from a bootlegger, assisted by the man's restless wife (Diane Varsi). But the heist doesn't go as planned and takes a tragic turn. ...
Style:
grindhouse, independent film, rough, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
1930s
Place:
north carolina, south carolina, california, southern usa
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43%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
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Style:
semi serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, sensitive
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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An FBI agent heads a Task Force to put an end to a string of drug-house robberies led by an unsuspecting family man in the working class suburbs outside of Philadelphia.
Style:
suspenseful, crime drama, crime thriller, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
2020s
Place:
philadelphia, pennsylvania
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Reasonable Doubts is a police drama broadcast in the United States by NBC that ran from 1991 to 1993.
Style:
detective, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
deaf, lawyer, disabled, legal, district attorney, courtroom, crooked cop, attorney, disabled person, police, police detective, partners against crime ...
Time:
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Similarity:
42%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, smuggling, mob boss, businessman, prohibition, criminal heroes, organized crime, gangster, federal agent, female nudity, corruption, crime boss ...
Time:
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Place:
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42%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Style:
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Plot:
lawyer, legal action, district attorney, rivalry, lawyers and clients, hotshot lawyer, courtroom drama, hidden truth, legal, ego clash, jury, courtroom ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
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42%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
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Style:
serious, thought provoking, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy
Plot:
legal, courtroom, legal action, workplace, law enforcement, dedicated lawyer, lawsuit, workplace situations, jury, cop witness relations, lawyer, nypd ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
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Adaptation of the Barbara Vine (aka Ruth Rendell) novel. After Adam inherits a country house from his great uncle, he and his friend Rufus decide to spend the summer there instead of abroad. An odd assortment of 'house guests' turns up ...
Style:
psychological thriller, detective, sexual, sexy
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